35MM INDIANA JONES Father's Day @ the Million Dollar Theater

Part of our Let’s Go Back to the Movies series

Sunday, June 21, 2026, Million Dollar Theater

LOCATION: The Million Dollar Theater, 307 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013

11a RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981, dir by Steven Spielberg, with Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paramount, 115mns, USA, 35mm pending availability)

2p INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984, dir by Steven Spielberg, w/ Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Paramount, 118mns, USA, 35mm pending availability)

5p INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE (1989, dir by Steven Spielberg, w/ Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliot, Paramount, 135mns, USA, 35mm pending availability)

You can get tickets to any individual movie or get the INDY FATHER'S DAY All-Day pass (all movies, best deal).

Please note that while we plan to screen these movies on 35mm prints, if we have any issues with the prints, we will have DCP/digital back ups. The show must go on!

11a RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK The action-adventure movie that revolutionize action adventure movies. Steven Spielberg's & George Lucas's 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark is still for most movie makers and movie lovers the gold standard. The once and future masterpiece. Daring 1930's archaeologist Indiana Jones (Ford) is commisioned by the US government to go on a worldwide hunt for the biblical Ark of the Covenant which may have supernatural powers and which Hitler and the Nazis want bad. Thus kicks off a non-stop, sequence after sequence consummate entertainment as Indy re-unites with fiery and fierce old flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), races against rival Belloq to get the Ark, and comes face to face with powers we were not meant to awaken.

What a movie! You've got Spielberg in his sweet spot, composer John Williams delivering a helluva score, George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan crafting a clockwork script that pays homage to the movie serials of the 1930's, and a cast that is perfect.

Movielovers will notice how much classic Hollywoo moviemaker Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Captain Blood, the Adventures of Robin Hood), James Bond movies, and just a love of swashbuckling cinema influences this movie.

Bring your father, stay the whole day. This is still the best summer movie ever made.

Today, we screen the first three Indiana Jones movies. On 35mm prints. You can get tickets to any individual movie or get the INDY FATHER'S DAY All-Day pass (all movies, best deal). Go to next door's historic Grand Central Market for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks as we take in what an art form can do and inspire.

2p INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM Spielberg famously agreed to make two sequels if the first Indiana Jones did well. And boy, did it do well. So three years later, hot off of E.T.., Spielberg, Lucas, Ford and company returned for, of all things, a prequel sequel.

To avoid using Nazis again as the bad guys, we travel back a few years to 1934 to find Indiana Jones in China. When an artifact trade goes wrong in wild fashion, Indy, American singer Willie Scott (Capshaw), and Indy's adopted sidekick Short Round (Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan in his 1st movie role) find themselves forced together on an adventure in India (just see the movie, the opening sequence is one of the best in the entire series).

It turns out a local Thuggee cult has stolen sacred Shankara stones and the children of neighboring villages. So Indy and team travel to Pankot Palace where they discover very sinister things going on deep in the caverns below.

Temple of Doom was so intense and dark, it created the need for the PG-13 rating which still attends most summer blockbusters to this day. The movie also has some of Spielberg's very best action sequences including a mine cart and rickety bridge chase that employs every special effect trick in the book.

Inspired by George Stevens' 1930's adventure classic Gunga Din, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom shocked audiences with its crazy action sequences in 1984. It is now often considered the hidden gem/classic of the entire series.

Today, we screen the first three Indiana Jones movies. On 35mm prints. You can get tickets to any individual movie or get the INDY FATHER'S DAY All-Day pass (all movies, best deal). Go to next door's historic Grand Central Market for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks as we take in what an art form can do and inspire.

5p INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE. Because of the darkness of Temple of Doom, Spielberg wanted to bring the series into the light for what was meant to be the final installment. George Lucas wanted to make a haunted house movie. Spielberg had recently reconciled with his own father. Thus a masterpiece was born.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade finds Indy having to rescue then work with his own estranged father, Henry Jones Sr (a never better Sean Connery). The Nazis are after the Holy Grail, the cup Christ used at the last supper, rumored to give eternal life to whoever drinks from it. And the Grail is Indy's Father's life's obsession.

We again go on a globe trotting adventure from Venice to Berlin to the middle East in a race against evil and time to prevent the Nazis from getting supernatural powers.

But at the heart of Last Crusade is a touching reconciliation story of a father and son who love each other but have to learn how to be together.

It's amazing to think that Spielberg and Lucas made these three movies within 8 years. Since Spielberg came on board partially because he wasn't allowed to direct a James Bond movie, Last Crusade finds Spielberg getting to direct both the original James Bond (Connery) AND getting to do a fun re-configuration of the James Bond classic From Russia with Love.

Secret Movie Club started 10 years ago in 2016 with a 35mm screening of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. We're going back to the movies to watch a trilogy that still stands as the platinum standard for action adventure with heart.

Do you want to learn how to direct? Do you want to take your Dad to something he'll actually enjoy?

Grab your whip, put on your fedora. This is going to be a wild ride in a movie palace.

Today, we screen the first three Indiana Jones movies. On 35mm prints. You can get tickets to any individual movie or get the INDY FATHER'S DAY All-Day pass (all movies, best deal). Go to next door's historic Grand Central Market for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks as we take in what an art form can do and inspire.

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